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From: kevin@neptune.AMD.COM (Kevin Tomasek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: SCSI hard drive controllers..
Keywords: scsi, hard drive, disk controllers
Message-ID: <1096@neptune.AMD.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 89 15:13:30 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, Texas
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With all this hard drive controller action going on and running out of
disk space myself, I looked into some RLL controllers and larger disks.

One person who claimed to work for a smaller pc maker said they had
evaluated all the RLL controllers available.  ( 1-2  yrs ago)  They
were unable to qualify any of them..  With that info I looked for the
next largest disk available in MFM (40MB to 80MB).  I called a couple
of those hard drive mail order joints for prices and a couple of them
suggested that if I change disks I should switch controllers to a pure
scsi controller.  Claiming addition drives can be daisy chained without
a problem.  The prices for an 80mb drive and scsi controller were very
competitive with any other controller.

Any comments or specific experience...

Thanks for any info..

kevin

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Kevin Tomasek			 		kevin@neptune.amd.com
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